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Melancholie by Jon Fosse
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Melancholie (original 1995; edition 2002)

by Jon Fosse, Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel (Übersetzer)

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Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative, Jon Fosse delves into Hertervig's mind as the events of one day precipitate his mental breakdown.… (more)
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Title:Melancholie
Authors:Jon Fosse
Other authors:Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel (Übersetzer)
Info:rororo (2002), Taschenbuch, 448 Seiten
Collections:Your library, Belletristik, Nicht vollständig gelesen
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Tags:Kunst, Malerei, Maler, Lars Hertervig, Roman, norwegische Literatur, biografisch, biografische Fiktion, skandinavische Literatur

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Melancholy by Jon Fosse (1995)

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A portrait of an artist's experience studying in Germany and later in a Norwegian institution, centring on his obsession with his landlady's daughter and anxiety about his work. The book is told through his troubled thoughts, which flit about and repeat, and it is the skill of the writer and translator that this is achieved while still being very readable. ( )
  rrmmff2000 | Oct 9, 2012 |
"It is just that he plays them out so many times in his head that we see them from angles that are just slightly askew from one another. It is like a kaleidoscope of thought, and we are moving through his mind with him."

Read it all at http://troysworktable.blogspot.com/2007/02/melancholy.html ( )
  troysworktable | May 2, 2007 |
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Wo hört die Leidenschaft auf? Und wo beginnt die Geistesstörung? Fosse verhandelt die Foucault'sche Frage nach der Klassifizierung des Nichtvernünftigen durch die Gesellschaft und schlägt sich auf die Seite der Verlierer, indem er sie zu Wort kommen lässt. Die Literatur, so sagt der Norweger nicht als Erster, braucht die Kranken und Verrückten, denn in ihrer übersteigerten Sensibilität sehen sie, was andere nicht sehen. Der unter Wahnvorstellungen leidende Maler und seine senile Schwester sind keine Schaustücke, die uns beruhigen sollen: Seht her, uns geht es doch besser! Vielmehr schwebt Fosse eine produktive Verstörung vor, ganz im Sinne des Romantikers Novalis: "Das Wesen der Krankheit ist so dunkel als das Wesen des Lebens." Für eine solche Erkenntnis taugt Literatur, verkommt sie nicht zur bloßen Dienstleistung, immer noch ausgezeichnet. In diesem Sinne möge Fosses "Melancholie" viele unerschrockene und tapfere Leser finden.
 

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DÜSSELDORF, APRÈD-MIDI DE FIN D'AUTOMNE, 1853 : je suis allongé sur mon lit, vêtu de non costume de velours mauve, de non soli costume, et je ne veux pas rencontrer Hans Gude.
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Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative, Jon Fosse delves into Hertervig's mind as the events of one day precipitate his mental breakdown.

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